Google Rant and Dark Patterns
Last night I realized that my phone had started to backup 58 GB photos from my phone to Googles servers. I had not requested this. I'm fine to upload some data to Google. I do for example have Gmail, files in Drive and a few shared albums in Google Photos. But that's completely different from blankly uploading all my photos! I do have privacy concerns, and of course 58 GB will not fit on my 17 GB quota.
Uses of AI
Yeah, I agree that there is an AI hype going on. I agree that there is a lot of overlap with the cryptocoin hype. I also wish that people stopped to shoehorn in AI to everything. I wished we never called it AI because it's not intelligent. But here we are.
The pain w/ E-mail
I love distributed and federated systems. E-mail must be the biggest one out there, and it's also one that almost everybody uses. Everybody has an email, right?
Ubuntu 24.04 with autoinstall.yaml
I recently installed the newly released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on my laptop. Canonical has introduced a revamped installation interface, which is visually appealing. However, I found that the options for manual disk configuration are limited. For instance, I couldn't manually set up LUKS encrypted partitions or utilize LVM. While the GUI lacks functionality in this aspect, you can on the other hand define any desired configuration in autoinstall.yaml.